Cuff-attacher.



J. 1'.. PARKER.

GUET ATTAGHER.

APPLIoATIoN HLBDJULY 1o, 1908 Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

JOSEPH L. PARKER, OP PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUFFf-ATTACHER.

ToaZZ whom it mayrconcern: Y Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. PARKER, acitizen ofthe UnitedStates, residing at Philadelphia, in the county ofPhiladelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in, Cuff-Attachers, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to garment attachers and preferably to that sort ofdeviceA wherein a pin is combinedvwith a button, the object of theinvention being primarily to provide means whereby a cuff maybe easilyattached to the sleeve of a coat or like garment; and

secondly provide means -for attaching one article of apparel which hasto be pinned to another article which has to be buttoned.

My invention consists broadly inpastud or button member having formedtherewith at one end a pin preferably in the form of a safety pin. K

In the drawings, Figure l, is a front view of my device on a largescale. Fig. 2,'is a front view ofthe stud or buttonbefore its attachmentto the pin. Fig. 3,is a vertical p section ofthe button andpin.

Like referenceV characters throughout the several views designate likeparts.k

2 designates a button or studof any suit,- able character preferablymade' of ahollow shell, the circumference Offwhich is turned over upon avdisk 3, to whichthe shanke is preferably hinged in any suitable manner,

though it might Vbeattached rigidly to said disk or otherwise connectedto the button. The shank l is preferably made of a hollow blankapproximately tubular, crushed or fiat` tened out, particularly at itslower end to form a relativelywide shoulder 4. Y

One side of the blank below the'shoulder portion is provided with anupwardly extending ear 5. In order to attach the button to the pin, thisear is bent around the fixed shank or wire 6 of the shield pin 6, anddown against the other face ofthe button'shank,

to which-it may be soldered or otherwise attached. v y

The wire 6 of the pin it will be seen rests against the upper endY oftheY shoulder 4/ and the ear is bent over tightly'upon the Wire,

to the over-turned portion or ear V5. The

pin may however, be left freeV to rotate within p Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed July 10, 1908. Serial No. 442,944. g

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

of the ear 5 thus forming shoulders on either side. of the ear whichprevents the pin from slipping longitudinally through the eye, whilepermitting if desired a certainrotative `movement of the pin. f Evenwhen` the pin is soldered or otherwise rigidly attached to the wire 6,the shoulders on either side lessen the chance ofthe pin becomingdetached or loosened from its engagement.

o In use the stud or button'rnay be inserted in a buttonhole and the pinused like any other of its kind. Y Thus the pin may be used to pintogether the neck band of a waist and the button be used for attachingthe collar thereto, or the pin may be inserted in the liningon theinside of a coat sleeve and the shirt cuffs attached tothe button in theordinary manner, thus providing a very convenient way whereby the cufsmay be always held in certain relation with the sleeve of a coat and yetunattached to the sleeve of the shirt. rIhere are many other ways inwhich this combined button and pin can be conveniently used, but I havereferred to these two simply for illustrative purposes.

It will be seen that Ihave provided a button of great simplicity and yetada ted to a large Vvariety of circumstances. t will be obvious that Ido not wish to be limited to the peculiar form of button shown, as thebutton proper could be formed more like a stud if for use with shirtcollars, or otherwise two subscribing, witnesses. so as to hold the pinsolidly connected with JOSEPH L. PARKER.

Witnesses:

' J. A. L. MULHALL,

' FREDERIC BWRIGHT.

